For a device with almost everything maxed out, there's not much you can do. If the screen were any larger, it'd be a tablet. The only thing would be the camera, which I supposed Samsung has not found a way to make Zero-shutter lag work with 12 megapixels yet and the screen, then again 1080P would be pure overkill.

Memory, available in 64GB, maxed. RAM, 2GB highest for any phone, and all it would probably need.
Processor, Quad-core exynos, best there is.

Well, the S4 Pro quad cores don´t have the baseband chip with LTE integrated. So what would be the reason to change the chip then? (from Samsung perspective, not yours).
So the better you can hope for is the S4 Pro MSM8960T, that even if it´s a dual core is Krait and has Adreno 320.

I don't know where you read it but it's wrong: Qualcomm has chips that have the baseband integrated and some others than don't.
Right now there isn't any S4 quad core that has any wireless band integrated (wifi only, but not phone basebands).
That's because they were intended for tablets, where integration is not a must as they battery is bigger and you can just add an expternal chip for the cell modem if needed even if it consumes a bit more battery.
You can check the list of integrated basebands in each chipset here:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snapdragon_%28System_on_Chip%29
Ony two krait quad cores:
APQ8064 (wifi only, no cell modem)
MPQ8064 (no modem at all)

They will hit the US for sure, just with external cell chipsets like in the tablets.
LG Optimus G (Eclipse in US) is a good example of a phone doing just that.
And I'm sure in the future you'll see sevaral tablets with the quad cores Krait, as the chip is 50% more powerful in CPU and around 70% in GPU than the better Tegra 3.
But still I don't think Samsung will use them for the Note II, if they have to add the extra chip anyway they'll do with the Exynos 4412, not the Krait. If not they'll use the a dual core Krait (see my previous comment).

your right SAE. ALL Kraits are US LTE/HSPA+42 compatible. Hell, all Q chips in general are because they are the only ones with the copyrwrited IP for that... which is why so far they are the only ones to accomplish that.

Thats not very smart. From what I can tell on Q's website, they are selling the MDM9x15 modem as well, so if it's compatible with other chipsets like Exynos, they are selling away their competitive advantage against Samsung in the US. The only reason there was ever a chip switch was for the integrated LTE/HSPA+ modems. Maybe its finally the end of that nonsense.

The odd thing is that many websites are still saying the quad/pro have integrated on chip LTE/HSPA+, so either they are wrong and just assuming or they know something that I cant find.

at first when i read the review it was weird good thing is that they have a 16:9 display which is a plus for them and they aren't using a pentile but RGB matrix and considering this preview says they are using super amoled plus. the only question i have is since samsung just did an lte with quad core device will it be like that with the states for me i really hope so.

hope so cause in the gs3 the quad core processor and lte radio was separately integrated meaning the quad core processor had it is own space and the lte radio had it own space in simple terms but i am sure this is the year we will see quad with lte cause if uk and europe has it then we should get it as well since europe and uk don't really have an 4g lte and we do

actually, the galaxy note 2 is huge, but its still intended to be used as a phone, so a 300ppi density would have been better,but this is the first time that samsung has come out of the pentile matrix display, so they need some time to improve....but the display would be better than the galaxy s3's display because finally, samsung finally throws out the useless pentile matrix display, the build quality should have been improved......anyways, its a good device but i think it would be quite expensive

yes,the note 2 has a lot, but why should we bring the apple vs samsung battle into this....he could also be a nokia or a bb user.....apple has specs that are optimized for apple hardware and ios, so it can do any task very well with what it has and its gpu rocks....so, in other words, we can say "to each, his own"
the note 2 is pretty impressive, i don't understand why he wants more, the display is good, the specs are more than enough...so we can say....the note 2 is a good device, it is the best phablet in the world today.........samsung continues to impress

If you expected anything more than a larger, slightly updated SG3 then you were bound to be disappointed. This New version of the Note is very satisfactory. Frankly, I don't know what all the hype is about. The notes just a big Samsung Galaxy.

The Galaxy Note II is armed with a brighter and larger 5.5” HD Super AMOLED Plus display with resolution of 720 x 1280 pixels. While this means that pixel density will be slightly lower compared to the original Note, in reality, the image quality shouldn't suffer any losses, as this screen used the standard RGB matrix, instead of PenTile

I'm not sure about the S4 Pro thing, we'll have to wait and see how it compares to this new Exynos with the benchmarks. Who knows, it may turn out to be an equal beast.

The GPU is said to be the same Mali 400, but overclocked. I'm not sure if it'll make that big of a difference, but I guess we'll have to see. I'd still prefer the Note 2 over the new LG phone because of Jelly Bean and the larger screen. Only a slight difference here.

I also prefer TouchWiz over the crappy LG skin, and I can disable all of the bloatware I don't need, such as S Voice, Media Hub, etc. Basically everything except S Note.
Also, Nova Launcher. Haha!

tl;dr Basically, the Note 2 has better software, but we'll have to wait until the official benchmarks of the processor and GPU.

I'm not really impressed. Why does Samsung make phones every several months and really never have a "breakthrough" with the specs? Okay, cool....it has a 1.6 Quad Core Processor...thats new! 5.5" Super Amold HD display, non-pentil...cool...again...no big deal. 3,100 mAH battery..cool...again, the Droid MaXX has been out for months..nothing new. Its thinner..wow..okay. Not sure if the Camera is a 8MP or what...but even if its a 10MP...so...there is a LG phone coming out with a 13 MP. So again....thanks for another nice shiny phone with nothing that really says "WOW, I gotta have this phone!"

lets galaxy note to will be the first phone coming out with 4.1 jelly bean out of the box. i don't see a need for a 13mp camera. i mean don't get me wrong it is a good option but 8mp is good enough. they have a better multitasking feature much better then the not 10.1 lot of software applications like airview plus the implement the s pen a lot more to the phone which is a plus. also it has a 16 by 9 display which alot of phones don't have. the note II is a promising device but we all have to wait and play with it to determine how good it can be. but i understand what you saying. LG is trying so hard to be the get to company for high end smartphones which quite frankly honestly speaking had struggled for a long time now. I hope they do well with the phones they just announced, also it is hard for lg especially if their device is not really out there but we will see. Considering how fast technology i going in this world today it is not odd that especially smartphones are released every year

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